This was part of Ahmadinejad's strategy all along – unfortunately, he had been hoping for a President McCain to give him exactly what he wanted. .i.e. the justification of U.S. interference to crush any opposition of him.

The 1856 formation of the Republican Party, viewed strictly as a northern regional party, put into policy what many shuddered at, a party whose essential purpose was inimical to Southern economic interests and institutions i.e.